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Incineration is a dinosaur technology.

American
Covanta is comparable to 1960s GE. GE designed Nukes and Trains. Add a taste of Toshiba and Hitachi
at Fukushima. And the free world's Arselor from Washingon to Boston
which does an awesome 70 MPH. China's totalitarian engineers do 1500
KM in five hours by train. Meanwhile GE became a bank trading in fraud.

Innocent Covanta and time-serving-DCC is traitorous
Bertie Ahern finance locking in bad USA technology designed by the
atypical cowboys giving mostly good Americans a lousy name. Currently
Bertie is an advisor to Nigeria, his natural home, complete with a
Guinness brewery where Black is Beautiful. However Covanta is not beautiful. Covanta is not even black.

And in Japan and of course not in the beautiful garden
state of New Jersey, the concrete is poured by the Yakuza. There is no
Yakuza in 'Jersey says Toni. Youse need to blame the Irish.

Dear
Mxxx Xxx, before the last election, our Party leader, our spokeman
for the Environment and our candidate gave a commitment that the
incinerator ,under a Fine Gael led government , would not go ahead. That
remains the Fine Gael policy.Cllr Paddy McCartan

Only a month ago, the Fairfax County Board of
Supervisors voted in favor of a new agreement that called for Covanta
Energy to continue operating the waste-to-energy plant, better known as
the Lorton incinerator.

Now, the Fairfax supervisors say the
30-year deal they had negotiated with the private waste management
company is off the table. Covanta has backed away from agreed-upon terms
and is pushing for greater concessions from the county in the contract,
according to the supervisors.

"Covanta has now advised the
county that it is no longer willing to implement this agreement and
instead now wishes to renegotiate the deal. Fairfax does not do business
this way. We had a deal and Covanta broke it. This is unacceptable,"
said Supervisor John Cook (R-Braddock) in a public statement.

IN A WRITTEN statement, Covanta said it had not backed out of its previous deal with the county.

"Covanta
is ready to draft and sign a contract that is consistent with the term
sheet previously agreed to. However, at this point we clearly have
different ideas on how the term sheet would be converted to an amended
service agreement," wrote the company's spokesman James Regan in an
e-mail.

Regan added that Covanta hopes to continue its relationship with Fairfax County.

"We
would like nothing more than to resolve these issues and resume what
has been a long, positive and productive relationship between Fairfax
County and Covanta," he wrote.

IN RESPONSE TO Covanta's
recent actions, the supervisors unanimously voted on April 26 to explore
"all options" for the incinerator, including those that do not include
Covanta as a partner.

"Clearly, the board is going back to the
drawing board," said Supervisor Gerry Hyland (D-Mount Vernon), who
represents the area around the incinerator in Lorton.

Hyland
said the Fairfax government might reconsider purchasing the Lorton plant
from Covanta in light of the private company's recent behavior.

As
of late March, the supervisors appeared to have closed the door on the
purchasing the plant when they voted 8-2 to pursue a new contract with
Covanta instead.

"We thought all we had to do was ink the deal,"
said Fairfax County Chairman Sharon Bulova (D-At-large), of the
agreement with Covanta.

But in a closed session meeting with
staff on April 27, several supervisors said they were astonished to
discover that Covanta had recently tried to change the terms of the
agreement, which means all options should be back on the table. "In
all my years on the board, I can't remember being as displeased with any
other subject. There has been nothing more frustrating than trying to
negotiate with Covanta," said Hyland, who became a supervisor in 1988.

FAIRFAX COUNTY
has not released a detailed list of the Covanta's demands, though
Hyland said the waste management company is asking for more money and
more flexibility.

According to the Mount Vernon supervisor,
Covanta wants a larger share of the revenue earned from the
incinerator's energy production.

Covanta has also asked for the
option to build its own solid waste transfer station, a facility where
small trash haulers take waste so that it can be sorted and loaded onto
much larger trucks bound for an incinerator, landfill or recycling
plants.

The county government currently operates the only waste
transfer station in Fairfax, which allows it to ensure that the vast
majority of local trash ends up at the incinerator.

All trash
haulers operating in Fairfax are essentially required to bring the waste
they collect to the county transfer station. The county then directs
that the trash at the transfer station goes to the incinerator.

This
is particularly important because Fairfax has an obligation to deliver a
certain amount of trash to the incinerator. If the county falls beneath
its quota of tons of trash, then it has to start paying Covanta a fine.

A Covanta-operated transfer-station would inevitably compete
with the county-run transfer station and make it more difficult for the
county to provide the required-amount of trash to Covanta each day, said
supervisors.

"If we don't have flow control, there is no way we
can guarantee how much trash we can send to them," said Supervisor
Linda Smyth (D-Providence).

Hyland added that a new transfer
station on the grounds of the incinerator would also bring many more
trucks to local roads in Lorton.

THE FAIRFAX SUPERVISORS enter this stand off with Covanta in weaker position than they were a month ago.

In
order to get an extension on negotiations, the county board agreed to
allow Covanta to operate the incinerator until 2020, even if the county
voted to purchase the facility. That move makes any proposal for the
county to buy the plant more financially risky, said Smyth.

"Even if we bought it, they would be there for another 10 years," she said.